Summary:Giampaolo Bertozzi and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni have been
working together from 1980, under the brand-name Bertozzi
& Casoni, as а registered company with shared responsability:
this formula means, from the beginning of their work, pure
artistic cooperation and very precize sculptural work, aimed
to find а sophisticated collocation with the world of the
contemporary art. Precize in this case means that the work of
Bertozzi & Casoni, even in the moments of greatest
connivance, ideal or operational, with its emerginng
tendences, crosschecked а superior and privileged interest for
the less problematic facts of the work of modern art: it
oscilated between executive perfectionism and fixed, formal
and technical results, which were never obtained before.
Sophisticated means that the two artists decided to follow the
process of repairing and healing artistic researches from
existing doubts of our time, so they have chosen the
"abnormal" expressive means in the field of modern art: the
ceramics.
During almost three decades of their working together, their
initial reasons and choices have produced internationally
recognized results. This creative binomial has realized the
most convincing works of art using the paritethic
propositional alternative: the опе of style and thinking. With
continual adjourning, Bertozzi & Casoni have introduced on
scene an artistic rappresentation comparable with the great
baroque theatre, with а calculated and clear language, similar
to the language of great narrators from the beginning of past
century. These are antinomies of their work, with no fear of
confrontation with figurative concepts, even the antique ones,
or with concepts of abstract art with decorative ideas, with
vanguard and neo-avanguard art, or conceptualistic
negativity. There are not many texts written about those two
artists who were ready to protrude over the most dangerous
abysses of art and reality, bringing us а sense of vertigo instead
of security. The objects of their "relieves" and "measuring" are
not, like in the old times, existing exemplars and old forms,
but а sort of modern magma which cannot be reduced to а
unique and prec